Syriza

The Coalition of the Radical Left, better known as Syriza (from Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás, the Greek name for the party), is a socialist and populist political party in Greece. The group was founded as an alliance of several far-left parties in 2004, but on 22 May 2012 it was turned into a political party, and in 2015 it won a majority of seats in the Hellenic Parliament. It had 144/300 seats in parliament, 4/21 seats in the European Parliament, and had 2/13 regional governors.